Hi Dan!
I use #12 solid solid copper THHN "house wire" - around here Menards has
the best price, HD has gotten very expensive in the last year.
I strip the insulation off with a little jig I made utilizing an
imbedded utility knife blade. I like the direct copper to soil DC
contact rather than laying insulated wire on/in the ground. Also the
solid bare copper wire won't leach away into the soil for 40-50 years.
Never bury bare stranded wire because it disintegrates way too fast,
which is why the National Electrical Code requires that all ground wire
be solid.
73
Lloyd - N9LB
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Dan Bookwalter wrote:
> I think I asked something similar last fall , but , circumstances
> changed and I couldn't do anything about it at the time...
>
> So , here I am again looking for a source of radial wire.... I was
> thinking of either going with K2AV's FCP or a radial field.... If i go
> with the radials I was thinking of using #14 stranded for about 15
> radials that in theory would help absorb any lightning impulses (per
> W8JI website) , then I was going to use whatever wire I can find for
> the remaining 40 or 50 radials. My radial field can only cover from
> about SW thru North over to East.
>
>
> Is there a better source for wire than Lowes/Home Depot ? I will check
> with the local electrical distibutor , but , if I recall correctly
> they weren't much better.... Lowes currently has 500' of #14 THHN for
> $50 I would need about 3000 feet.
>
> Dan
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